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About Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

I began my working career as a reluctant potato peeler whilst waiting to commence my training as a student nurse. On completion I worked mainly in intensive care/coronary care; finishing my hospital career as clinical nurse educator in intensive care. A life changing period as a resort owner/manager on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu was followed by recovery time as a farmer at Bucca Wauka. Having discovered I was no farmer and vowing never again to own an animal bigger than myself I took on the Barrington General Store. Here we also ran a five star restaurant. Working the shop of a day 7am - 6pm followed by the restaurant until late was surprisingly more stressful than Tanna. On the sale we decided to retire and renovate our house with the help of a builder friend. Now believing we knew everything about building we set to constructing our own house. Just finished a coal mine decided to set up in our backyard. Definitely time to retire we moved to Queensland. I had been writing a manuscript for some time. In the desire to complete this I enrolled in a post grad certificate in creative Industries which I completed 2013. I followed this by doing a Master of Arts by research graduating in 2017. Now I live to write and write to live.

It certainly provoked her imagination. In reality there are so many reasons stones are left – to give direction, as a burial marker, a memorial, to commemorate someone being at the place and on it goes. Unless you know it is up to your imagination – Peter’s imagination didn’t take him the right direction.

We entered a lock in France as a second boat. The lockie decided to try to cram a third small boat in at the back, to save himself some work. As the water level lowered, the smaller boat’s rudder was trapped on the cill and he ended up pointed downwards at a steep angle with the crew sliding down towards the bow. Awful moment.

LOL. Enthusiastic potato peeler – absolutely. Each is an individual with different depths & shapes of eyes and body. Give me a potato to peel anyday. It was my boredom with eggs that almost got me fired.

I don’t know that there are any superstitions about pollards and cairns together (I took fictitious liberty) but in Jemma’s mind the trees looked as if they had been decapitated which added to the possible use of the cairns freaked her out. Luckily for her.

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I began my working career as a reluctant potato peeler whilst waiting to commence my training as a student nurse. On completion I worked mainly in intensive care/coronary care; finishing my hospital career as clinical nurse educator in intensive care. A life changing period as a resort owner/manager on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu was followed by recovery time as a farmer at Bucca Wauka. Having discovered I was no farmer and vowing never again to own an animal bigger than myself I took on the Barrington General Store. Here we also ran a five star restaurant. Working the shop of a day 7am - 6pm followed by the restaurant until late was surprisingly more stressful than Tanna. On the sale we decided to retire and renovate our house with the help of a builder friend. Now believing we knew everything about building we set to constructing our own house. Just finished a coal mine decided to set up in our backyard. Definitely time to retire we moved to Queensland. I had been writing a manuscript for some time. In the desire to complete this I enrolled in a post grad certificate in creative Industries which I completed 2013. I followed this by doing a Master of Arts by research graduating in 2017. Now I live to write and write to live.